Thermally Augmented Cork-based Thin Insulation Coating (TACTIC)

热增强软木基薄绝缘涂层 (TACTIC)

• 批准号: 76777
• 金额: $ 19.18万
• 依托单位: CORKSOL UK LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=76777
• 关键词: Thermally; Augmented; Cork; based; Thin

The TACTIC project will take the existing CorkSol product Thermocork, a sustainable cork based insulating material and reformulate it with nano additives to improve its thermal performance. Thermocork is easily and cost effectively installed and can be used to insulate hard to treat houses. Around 7.7 million UK houses are uninsulated, solid wall construction dwellings and many residents in these houses suffer from fuel poverty, meaning that they struggle to heat their homes due to high fuel bills, caused by heat loss. People in fuel poverty are more likely to suffer underlying respiratory health issues, which increases the severity of viruses such as Covid-19\. Providing a cost effective solution to poorly insulated houses will improve the underlying health of a large proportion of he UK population.Covid 19 has also had a significant impact in the construction and home improvement industry. The private sector housing repairs and maintenance market saw a 39.8% drop in the three months to May 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic. Providing a new innovative material that can be used to insulate hard to treat housing to will help generate a new market opportunity for both private homes and also social housing.TACTIC will reformulate CorkSol's existing Thermocork insulation system with the addition of candidate nano additives to enhance its thermal performance to allow a 10mm coating to have the same equivalence as 50mm of mineral wool and to be applied at a lower cost than alternatives. The new formulation will be tested at both laboratory and real-life scale, where it will be applied using CorkSol's existing aerosol spray method. The project will also examine the market for this new material and produce marketing plan to help generate interest in the core target market of hard to treat homes, especially those in the social housing sector.The project partners are CorkSol, a successful UK company that has in place an existing product that is sourced sustainably and a network of approved, trained applicators and Teesside University, whose academics have the technical skills needed to work on the product reformulation and testing needed. The project outcome will be a next generation of Thermocork with enhanced thermal properties that can be used on the hard to treat, uninsulated homes that are large part of the UK housing stock.

TACTIC项目将采用现有的CorkSol产品Thermocork，一种可持续的软木基绝缘材料，并使用纳米添加剂对其进行重新配制，以提高其热性能。Thermocork易于安装，具有成本效益，可用于隔离难以处理的房屋。英国约有770万所房屋是未隔热的实心墙建筑住宅，这些房屋中的许多居民遭受燃料贫困，这意味着他们由于热量损失造成的高燃料费用而难以为房屋供暖。燃料匮乏的人更有可能遭受潜在的呼吸系统健康问题，这增加了新冠肺炎等病毒的严重性。为隔热效果差的房屋提供具有成本效益的解决方案，将改善大部分英国人口的基本健康状况。新冠肺炎对建筑和家居装修行业也产生了重大影响。受新型冠状病毒疫情影响，截至2020年5月止三个月，私营房屋维修及保养市场下跌39. 8%。提供一种新的创新材料，可用于隔离难以处理的住房，将有助于为私人住宅和社会住房创造新的市场机会。TACTIC将重新制定CorkSol现有的Thermocork隔热系统，添加候选纳米添加剂，以提高其热性能，使10 mm的涂层与50 mm的矿棉具有相同的等效性，并以更低的温度应用。成本高于替代品。新配方将在实验室和现实生活中进行测试，并将使用CorkSol现有的气溶胶喷雾方法进行应用。该项目还将研究这种新材料的市场，并制定营销计划，以帮助激发人们对难以处理的房屋的核心目标市场的兴趣，特别是那些在社会住房部门的兴趣。项目合作伙伴是CorkSol，一家成功的英国公司，拥有一个可持续采购的现有产品，以及一个经过批准的，训练有素的应用者网络和Teesside大学，他们的学者拥有进行产品重新配方和测试所需的技术技能。该项目的成果将是下一代Thermocork，具有增强的热性能，可用于难以处理的未隔热房屋，这些房屋是英国住房存量的很大一部分。